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achived URL: http://video1.cathedral.org/wmv/Inaugural0901...

event website URL: http://wnc-nave.wm.llnwd.net/wnc_nave

start date and time: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 9:10 AM

end date and time: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 11:30 AM

categories:   spiritual   political   ceremonies & celebrations

event description:

video webcast -

President Barack Obama will join with Vice President Joe Biden, dignitaries, and Americans of diverse faiths in celebrating the previous day's presidential inauguration. The National Prayer Service will begin at 10:00 am ET and will include prayers, readings, and musical performances. A woman, Reverend Dr. Sharon Watkins, will be the first woman to deliver the sermon at this traditional inaugural event.

Construction for the Washington National Cathedral began in 1907 at a ceremony attended by President Theodore Roosevelt. The cathedral was finished in 1990 in the presence of President H. W. Bush. It is the second largest Gothic cathedral in the United States.

sponsor's website: http://www.nationalcathedral.org/